1 January 2020 to 1 July 2029
Nordita, Stockholm
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EM counterparts of compact object mergers (cont) and Binary Black Hole Astrophysics

19 Jan 2022, 09:00
122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

122:026

Nordita, Stockholm

Roslagstullsbacken 23, 114 19 Stockholm

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  1. Mansi Kasliwal
    19/01/2022, 09:00
    We are all enjoying the dawn of a new era with multiple direct detections of gravitational waves from merging black holes and eagerly a waiting a merger with at least one neutron star. Here, I will present my ongoing efforts and my view on prospects to identify and characterize an electromagnetic counterpart. Among the various models for electromagnetic emission from binary neutron...
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  2. Assaf Horesh
    19/01/2022, 09:30
  3. Rob Fender
    19/01/2022, 10:00
  4. Eran Ofek
    19/01/2022, 10:15
  5. Maxim Lyutikov
    19/01/2022, 11:00
    We discuss electromagnetic signals expected from mergers of various compact stars, stressing the ''Faraday wheel'' mechanism of converting mechanical energy into electromagnetic.
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  6. Michelle Lochner
    19/01/2022, 11:30
    Since the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, a new window of discovery in Physics has opened up. However, in order to use gravitational waves as probes of cosmology and fundamental Physics, an electromagnetic counterpart must be detected. As the sky localisation for a gravitational wave detection is large, detected transient sources from follow-up and...
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  7. Asaf Pe'er
    19/01/2022, 11:45
  8. Andrei Belbodorov
    19/01/2022, 14:00
    Magnetized compact objects are capable of generating strong intermittent outflows resembling coronal mass ejections from the sun. Internal shocks in these outflows can produce bright transients with a broad spectrum. This activity should be especially strong for differentially rotating objects formed in mergers. For instance, white dwarf mergers should produce bright transients, even...
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  9. Gavin Lamb
    19/01/2022, 14:30
    The peak magnitude for orphan afterglows from the jets of gravitational wave (GW) detected BH/NS-NS mergers highly depends on the jet half-opening angle. For a short GRB with a homogeneous jet structure, the jet half opening angle that gives an orphan afterglow viewed at the typical inclination for a GW detected event, 38 degrees, that is brighter at optical frequencies than...
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  10. Silvia Toonen
    19/01/2022, 14:45
    I'll be present our recent paper on black hole mergers that occur due to secular evolution in stellar triples. I'll show the expected rates and characteristics and what sets them apart from other formation channels.
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